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Poster:
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brewster |
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Feb 7, 2009 6:56am |
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announcements
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Yiddish literature goes online |
Over ten thousand Yiddish texts, estimated as over 1/2 of all the published works in Yiddish, are now
online based on the work of the
National Yiddish Book Center, volunteers, and the Internet Archive. We are excited that a literature of a people is being made available.
While some of the rights issues may be unclear, this collection has been greeted enthusiastically during the years it was available for print-on-demand. This community may offer a model for how non-profit libraries can support culture online. We would like to see more non-profit libraries offering complete collections to support communities that may be geographically distributed.
The Internet Archive has been working to better support books that read right-to-left, and ease importing of existing digital collections.
Announcement in the
New York Times.
This post was modified by brewster on 2009-02-07 14:56:58
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